In an interview with Andrew Marantz, the novelist and poet Ben Lerner discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” ...

In 2024, Ben Lerner was asked if he wanted to interview one of his mentors, the poet Rosmarie Waldrop, for The Paris Review. “I was really ambivalent about it,” Lerner told me. “Rosmarie is amazing.

In 2024, the Paris Review published an interview that Ben Lerner conducted with 90-year-old poet Rosemarie Waldrop over the ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” a six-volume novel that deployed minutely detailed descriptions of the mundane (making tea, changing a diaper) in a refusal to obscure reality, became a global ...

Would you fuck Ben Lerner? Or perhaps “Adam,” the autofictional protagonist of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School who also appears as “Ben” in 10:04, and may or may not be the nameless ...

Transcription By Ben Lerner Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25, 144 pages As we scroll through the final portion of human history ...

His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription is about a set of writers who are tormented by the question of ...

In The Topeka School (2019), for example, a married middle-aged man beginning an affair is at the same time the teenage boy ...

Staff Picks returns this spring with selections from News Editor Drew Gillis, who just devoured Ben Lerner’s latest novel, and Games Editor Garrett Martin, who spotlights an indie game with a unique ...

The new book is already being called one of the best releases of 2026.

In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass tube” with “two tiny ...

Ben Lerner’s gorgeously crafted short novel Transcription achieves this retrospective reframing on a novelistic scale. Each ...